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Venezuela’s Returning Migrants Allege Abuses in El Salvador’s ‘Hell’ Prison Where US Sent Them
EL SALVADOR, JUL 25 – The migrants were held without evidence of gang ties and freed after a prisoner swap; the U.S. paid $6 million to El Salvador for their detention, human rights groups reported widespread abuses.
- Last Friday, 252 Venezuelan migrants were released from El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center after four months in detention.
- Allegations of gang ties were made without evidence by U.S. officials, as the Trump administration paid El Salvador millions to detain migrants in CECOT.
- Maikel Olivera, former detainee, described his confinement as 'real hell,' adding AFP reported guards beat him for taking a shower.
- In El Salvador, families, including Olivia Rojas, greeted returnees with tears, embraces, and Venezuelan flags, reflecting emotional reunions after months of detention.
- In Caracas, Maduro highlighted migrants’ accounts of abuse in a state broadcast, prompting investigations and political responses.
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Several of the Venezuelans who returned from the Center for the Confining of Terrorism (Cecot) to Venezuela were left with their wrists and ankles marked. Being stuck with their hands behind or walking down handcuffed and feet was part of the daily routine in the four months held in the Salvadoran prison, Nayib Bukele’s megacarcel. There they were sent by Donald Trump’s government resorting to an old law against foreign enemies: an infernal stop…
In mid-March, Washington had expelled more than 250 Venezuelans to El Salvador, where they sat in a notorious prison and were released in exchange for Americans detained in Venezuela.
By CNN en Español A Venezuelan migrant who was imprisoned at Cecot, El Salvador's maximum-security prison, said in an interview with CNN that he was "brutally beaten" there three days before being deported to Venezuela and that he has a hand injury. Luis Alfredo Núñez Falcón is one of more than 200 Venezuelan citizens sent in March by the Trump administration as part of its deportation policy to the prison built by the government of his colleagu…
(Mexico City=Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Jae-rim = A Venezuelan national who was deported from the U.S. to El Salvador on grounds of being connected to a drug trafficking cartel without any special evidence...
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